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s Communications FOR THE FREE PRESS. QThe citizens of Edgecombe are requested to meet at the Court House in Tarborough, on Tuesday of next County Court, to express their opinions relative lo the election of President and Vrice President of the U. States for the next term, and to appoint a Delegate lo meet in Con vention at Raleigh, in June next, to make suitable nominations. Com. TOR THE FREE PRESS. Mr. Howard: In your last paper I see a notice that an Anti-Van Buren meeting is to be held in this place on the second day of our next Court. The Amies seem determined lo have a meeting. Then I call upon the Jackson men of this county to attend said meeting, and let the sentiments of Edgecombe upon this subject be fairly expressed. BRIAN. FOR THE FREE PRESS. Mr. Howard: I observe in your last paper an invitation to the people of Edgecombe to as semble tor the purpose of elicit ing some public expression of opinion in regard to the Vice Presidency. I feel authorized in assuming the fact, that the object of this meeting is to for ward the pretensions of an emi nent citizen of Virginia. And here I will premise, that no man more highly appreciates the talents the patriotism and the stem integrity of Mr. Bar bour than I do, and were the contest narrowed down to Bar bour and Van Buren, I should not hesitate in preferring the former. But it is the part of wisdom and of prudence to take an enlarged and a com prehensive view of this subject. Thus regarding it, to my mind it is obvious that the only effect that can result from pressing the claims of Mr. Barbour, will be to send the election to the Senate. The present political completion of that branch of our National Legislature fur nishes abundant reason to ap prehend that in making an elec tion the wishes of the American people would not be regarded. Place the election there, and the small States of New Eng land with a fraction of the pop ulation and possHssinu few feel ings and principles in common wnn tliem, will have as much weight as the great States of New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Place it there and for thesecond time Mr. Clay will possess and exercian tliP power of defeating the will of me people, riace it there and we have a Vice President oppo sed to us upon every point of national policy opposed to us upon the Bank the Tariff Internal Improvement in a word, a man who reared in the strictest school of federalism has uniformly advocated the most unwarrantable extension of federal Dower. The Baltimore Convention is now in session. Let us wait until its result is ascertained. Most of the States that support ed Gen. Jackson are them re presented. United upon this and being composed of men eminent for their talents, the vunvunuori alter exchnnrrimr opinions cannot fii J?i! the selection best calculated to preserve the harmony and ad vance the interests of the coun try. If Mr. Barbour is nomi nated let us sustain Inm. If ivi- -vt i mr. van Buren should be preferred ci us waive minor objection! and aid in carrying into execu Uon the recommendation of th Convention. 1 do wish to appear the eulogist of Mr. Van, Buren but 1 do wish to "render to Cae sar the things that are Ciesar's." Of him 1 feel justified in saying, that he has not sown dissension among nor compromised the interests of those with whom he has been associated. If he has battled successfully for his advancement, he has not for gotten his country. When his high ambition sought its own, that country has been benefitted by its struggles. The constitutional sovereign ty of the States has never been more ably sustained than by Mr. Van Buren. Upon this subject he says: "In the darkest hour of war, when the General Government was dis heartened by debt and disaster its unnerved arm was strengthened and the national honor rescued by the authority and patriotism of the Slates." After alluding to the success ful prosecution of works of In ternal Improvement by the States, he goes on to observe: 'A general surrender of such opin ions (by the General Government) is therefore at this time a tribute just ly due to the established character of the State governments. But they are not surrendered but have become more and more extravagant, until those under whose protection they nowr are, claim for this government powers which were repudiated by the founders of this very school." I might multiply extracts from this speech but am unwilling to occupy so much of your paper in demonstrating a truth with which every reading man must be familiar. Perhaps some salutary infer ence may be drawn from the fact, that those individuals in North Carolina who have been most active in getting up these Ar.ti-Vari Buren meetings, are enemies of ihe President. The partizans of Mr. Calhoun and the loyal adherents of the fall en house of Cfuincy, equally op posed to ben. Jackson, meet upon this common ground and suspend their mutual eumiiy while they labor to destroy the common cnemv. Take anv j j one committee appointed in any part or North Carolina, and I hesitate not to say you will find Mr. Barbour's pretended friends to be Nullifiers or 'American System men." The first ex tending to us, under the auspi ces of Mr. Barbour, the bless ings of free trade the last ho ping that, in the general confu sion that may be created, the ex- minister to Panama may step in and bring back the government to the dark period of 1824. "Timeo Danaos etdona ferentcs." C1VIS. FOR THE FREE TRESS. Mr. Howard: I promised last week that a more mintitn nr- count of the Anti-Van Buren meeting, lately held at Green ville, should be given in the next number of your paper. Ac cordingly I proceed to state the manner in which that meeting was gotten up, its political com plexion, and the manner in which the resolutions of that mtuiig nasscu without one dissenting voice. The night preceding the meeting some gentleman, not a resident of Pitt, suggested such a course. The next day a vast concourse ot persons assem bled at Gen. Clark's tavern for the purpose of hearing an inte resting discussion between two gentlemen when public notice was given that a meeting of the eitizens on the subject of the Vice Presidency would that eve nngv be held at the Court House, About 5 o'clock some few gathered round the Court House ihe Sheriff made re peated proclamations from the Court llouse window many were pcrsuuded to come up a man with a stentorian voice was posted at the door and called upon the vast crowd in the streets to come up, telling them among other things that they were going to have the "Bull to dance." They at length suc ceeded in mustering about fifty persons, several of whom were Van-Burcn men, but who re garding the meeting as wholly an ex parte affair, did not vote at all on the resolutions. The largest portion of the meeting having gone there out of mere curiosity, and ignorant of the claims of both Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Barbour, did not vote at all. 1 should consider it by no means an illiberal calcula tion to estimate those who vo ted in the affirmative at 15! The meeting was addressed by Henry Toole, Esq. in an eloquent manner, I admit. He alluded to Senator Poindexter's supposition of a determination of Gen. Jackson, in the event of Mr. Van Buren's success, to re tire from ofiice and leave Mr. Van Buren in possession of the Presidency. As a very strong evidence of the fact, he charged Mr. Van Bui. en with being an accomplished intriguer, an art- iul sophist, a designing politi cian, and pronounced him re sponsible for the Tariff of 1828. He eulogised Mr. Barbour, call ing him the champion of State rights, etc. Now, Mr. Editor, I am not disposed to detract from Mr. Barbour s merits, lie is a Sou thern man, an able man, and an amiable man. But let me ask the real friends of this gentle man, what is the prospect of his success! Will even Virginia herself support him in the event of the Baltimore Convention's i nomination of Mr. Van Buren!! But on the other hand, should! Mr. Barbour unexpectedly be nominated by that Convention, I for one would cheerfully ac quiesce in that nomination; and this 1 believe to be the prevail ing sentiment among the real friends of the Jackson party in this State. But will Jackson men suffer themselves torn to pieces, divi sion created in our ranks bv the opposition! Should they who mean to vote for neither Van Buren nor Barbour dictate to us the course we ought to pursue! Do we want advice at thehandsof our enemies! Shall those who oppose the President, who wish for the downfall of his administration, shall they tell us how we ought to uphold it! Mr. Editor, in the remarks 1 have made about this Green ville meeting I have meant no thing invidious. In their pri vate relations I highly esteem most of the persons in attend ance on that occasion. With no other view than that of a de sire to do justice to Mr. Van Buren and to the great demo cratic party to which I belong, have 1 ventured to say a word in regard to this matter. FAIR PLAY. FOR THE FREE PRESS. "I am Sir Oracle, and when I Speak Let no dog bark." Mr. Editor: I saw in your paper of the 22d, a communica tion signed Fair Play, purport ing to give a correct statement of the Anti-Van Buren meet ing that took place in Green villc the 8th instant. Fair Play was very anxious to show some foul play in that meeting, if he had felt his competency; buf Mr. Fair Play, notwithstanding his residence in Greenville a few months, might possibly bv. mistaken, in the politics of Gen. Clark and others, that he ha taken the liberty to mention It is an avowed fact that Gen. Clark and Dr. Gorham were both Adams men;, but there were others who sanctioned the proceedings and resolutions who were Jackson men, and myself for one my purpose was to disapprobate the con duct and to show that I am op posed to Martin Van Buren as Vice President and I believe that I can answer for several others, if I am not mistaken. Perhaps, Mr. Editor, Fair Play drew his inferences from some remarks that were made in the Polemic Society of Greenville, Wednesday evening after the meeting a member of this So ciety, who was not in favor of the meeting, sought an oppor tunity in the debate to say that the meeting did not express the will of the people. Perhaps if Fair Play had been appointed Secretary of this meeting, that his real name might have ap peared in your paper in capi tals, then he would have been known from Tarborough, or perhaps his name would. As to the Counsellors that he men tions, I know nothing of their politics, more than they are op posed to Van Buren there was also a counsellor from the same place that Fair Play writes from, who was at the meeting, who expressed himself in favor of Jackson last year, but as for his rcallv being so, I leave for Mr. Fair Play lo find out. Fair Play, to lengthen, out his col umns as much as possible, deals considerably in alias's he may alias them as much as he thinks proper, and then he is compel led to grant them tiie liberty of speech. I think I am warrant ed in saying, that neither the Chairman nor Secretary are Clay men and 1 ought to know as well as Fair Play. Does Fair Play pretend to arrogate to himself the liberty of saying, because he lives in Tarborounh and we in Greenville, that we have no rigljt to call a political meeting when he is ubouil Fair Play certainly reminds us of the heathen god, that was once a log in the garden he has acted as the fly that left the mustard pot, before he could couch in such a small place ideas that was to convey o much meaning to his would-be republicans. Fair Play is the first intimation that I ever had of our Chairman and Secretary not being republicans and he says, "Mr. Grimes too was there" we know that to be a fact did Mr. Grimes address the meeting? did he make any motion, or present any resolu tion! No, he said but one word more than Fair Play did, and that was "I" which Fair Play thought he had no right to do, because he was opposed to Van Buren. Perhaps the Magician (should he come into office) will remember Fair Play when he goes to make up his jewels then Fair Play will tell him all about the meeting that took place in Greenville, and for aught 1 know, he .may have our turpentine inspector removed and appoint a friend of Fair Play's. RUBEN. Greenville, May 24, 1332. C7Tho receipts of the Wes leyan Methodist Missionary So ciety, during the past year, a mount to $214,316. Y. Com. Adv. SENATE. Tuesday, May 15. Tho Chair communicated a letter from the Secretary of the Tre-i sury, transmitting a statement made by him, in obedience to a resolution of the Senate, show, iog the amount of duties col" lectcd under the existing huv and the amount which will he collected under the bills report ed from the committee on man ufactures of the Senate, and un. der the Tariff, submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury. Fif teen hundred copies were or dered to be printed. M r Holmes introduced a bill on leave, to abolish postage' on newspapers, which was twice read and referred to the com mittee on the post ofiice and post roads. The resolution some days ago offered by Mr. Benton, for printing blank num ber ot copies of the report of thi e committee on the Bank invoei; - nation, and blank numhnr of ,u documents nceomnanvin iho J r? - w ouitj, v1C5 kiiwij up. Kjt) mo tion of Mr. Dallas, it was amen ded so as to include the counter reports of the minority of the committee, and the first blank having been filled with 5,000, and the second with 1,000, the resolution was adopted. Mr. Dallas gave notice that on Tues day next, he would call up the bill to renew the charter of the U. S. Bank On motion of Mr. Smith, the bill authorizing a subscription on the part of the United States to the stock of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, was taken up for consideration. Mr. Smith commenced a speech in sup port of the bill, and after speak ing a short jime, he yielded the floor for the delivery of a mes sage from the House of Repre sentatives, announcing to the Senate the death of the Hon. Jonathan Hunt, a member of the House from the State of Vermont, and that his funeral will take place to-morrow at 4 o'clock, P. M. On motion, it was resolved unanimously, that the Senate will attend the fune ral; and, as a testimony of res pect for the memory of the de ceased, they will go into mour ning, and wear crape round the left arm, for thirty days. The Senate then adjourned until Thursday. Thursday, 17 th. Mr. Smith moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill authorizing a subscription, on the part of the U. States, to the stock of the Baltimore and O hioRail Road Company after some discussion, Mr. Smith withdrew his motion in favor of a motion to go into Executive business. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Executive business, and af ter spending some time there in, adjourned. Friday, 18. Mr. King, from the committee on public lands, to which was referred the bill from the committee on manufactures appropriating for a limited time, the proceeds of the sale of the public lands, made a report thereon, which was read and 5,000 copies or dered to be printed. The pen sion bill was taken up, and the amendment extending its pro visions to officers and soldiers who fought in the Indian wars prior to 1795, was rejected. Mr. Marcy moved to embrace in the bill those who served three months, which was re tSnmn limn w !. " ' jected. Mr. Frelinchuysen moved an amendment granting
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